Commentary
Trust in public health has been shattered in the wake of COVID. Confidence in government health authorities has plummeted—64 percent rate the FDA as “only fair or poor” and 58 percent rate the CDC the same.
Ironically, and in defiance of Americans demanding more health autonomy, Sen. Bernie Sanders has put forth a radical Medicare-for-All 2023 bill to impose the ultimate government control over health care—single-payer, socialized medicine. It not only controls the allocation of all medical care, but it explicitly outlaws private insurance competition with the government and creates a new “Office of Health Equity” that forces an extremist ideology on American taxpayers….